Editorial: Pardon Jack Johnson to redress an injustice
by Chicago Tribune
Mar 13, 2018
2 minutes
"I've found no better way of avoiding race prejudice than to act with people of other races as if prejudice did not exist."
- Jack Johnson, world heavyweight champion boxer, 1908-1915.
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In an era of lynchings and Jim Crow, Jack Johnson lived out his credo. He broke boxing's color barrier to become the first black heavyweight
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